Stonemaier Games: Scythe Encounters Expansion | Add to Scythe (Base Game) | 32 New Encounter Cards | Ages 14+, 1-5 Players, 115 Mins

Much better encounter cards than the origional game comes with. Well worth it.

Scythe Encounters provides 32 new cards to be added to, or replace, the encounters found in the base game of Scythe.These cards offer events that can drastically change the game. They offer items that can greatly improve a players goods, forces, income, combat strength, and popularity to a greater level than the base game encounters. That is the main theme of this deck which is very overpowered outcomes. An example of this is a player obtaining 9 coins, or 5 popularity, by skipping their next turn. Another great addition is additional beneficial actions that may be used later. This involves players holding onto a card until they are able to play it. An example of this is a player being able to teleport to any mine or tunnel on the board when they choose to discard the card.This expansion makes encounters fun and enticing as players will want to obtain these new powerful cards before they are all taken. If this sounds like too much, they can easily be shuffled into the base encounter cards to make it only a possibility that an overpowered card can be found. This is a good addition to the game that can make encounters even more interesting.

the is an expansion to my favorite game. it is very well designed and made. there is a lot of pieces, but its worth every moment spent learning this game. it has a ton of replayability.

These cards are a fun addition to the game of Scythe especially if you are a big fan! You can replace old ones and use just these or combine them, and that’s what we’ve done! Some of them are pretty powerful! But we like the twist it adds to the game, compared to the regular which are all pretty similar in a way as far as just gaining resources, popularity or power. One card in this new deck allowed player with encounter card to move their character to any empty space on the game board, which helped them avoid needing the movement over rivers ability.

These add some new twists and bonuses to the Encounters that enhance the game. Glad I got them.

If you love Scythe, play it often, think it's great you'll appreciate this upgrade.I would say this is quite possibly our number one game of all time, so we have slowly upgraded as much of it as possible.We play it often enough that we've gone through all the base game event cards and wanted more for variety. The art on these is still amazing and fabulous and many bring in ties to Wind Gambit which is fun.It's more of the same of what you are used to, so again I will mostly recommend this for very frequent players of the base game and those who want to upgrade their game to get even more enjoyment out of it.For the average Owner who plays Scythe less often, it's a personal choice then, if you like upgrading and having everything for a game you fit the target audience for this as well. Otherwise I won't say this is necessary or game changing in any way, the variety in cards is already there with the base game so this is just for fun or wouldn't be needed at all for other players. If there were ever a new bunch of Factory cards I could get my hands on that would be in my opinion a more almost required purchase.

I enjoy these new encounters and absolutely LOVE the new "special" encounter options where you can keep certain cards and strategically use them later in the game. I would have loved to have more of those cards as there were only a couple in the whole deck. I also was looking forward to some new artwork for the cards, but some of the art work was repeated. Looking at everything, the new artwork is great and the new type of encounters are amazing, but I just wish there were more of those new things included.

Adds variety to encounters if you play often. Great art and card quality, some interesting new card decisions / mechanics. I always like to have fully expanded games so a no brainer for me